Weekend of books
You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It's the playing that's irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed and beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too, how could you ever have loved this?
Quotes from The Passion. I've finished it, so I'm moving on to Art & Lies from the same author, but I'll take my time on this one. I think it's the type of book you need to read slowly in order to enjoy it. Choosing the book led to the following conversation with my wife:
Scout: If you understand Art & Lies, explain it to me.
Celine: Only if you explain to me that Bunuel film I still don't understand.
Seriously, if anyone reading this can grasp The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, kindly explain it to me. I know it's surrealist so it's not exactly meant to be explained, yadda yadda yadda, but I can't shake off the feeling that there's something I missed.
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Scout and I had a (very short) book shopping and shawarma date. Got 2 books for P49.50 each, which inspired me to blog about it @ Frugal Pinoy. If you read for leisure (I think at least 60% of my friends do), you might want to check out the article if you're sick of spending hundreds of pesos for a single book. I set a P500 book-buying budget for myself this month, glad to know I bought 2 already with just roughly P100.
Speaking of reading, I just remembered that most of my friends from Kalayaan don't read for fun. I know of one person who's read exactly 4 books in her life. Can you imagine that? Four. I wonder what they do for brain exercise. Maybe advanced calculus.
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I'll be working twice as hard this week so I can just relax next week or do non-work projects. Those comics need to get done. I'm such an expert procrastinator when it comes to that.
Plus, Scout and I will be watching Avenue Q, attending the ToyCon @ Megamall, and I'll be heading off to Tagaytay with the Mangoes. With all of that going on, I don't think I'll be able to focus on work next week. It's a good thing my editor agreed that I write all my articles for that week in advance.
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed and beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too, how could you ever have loved this?
Quotes from The Passion. I've finished it, so I'm moving on to Art & Lies from the same author, but I'll take my time on this one. I think it's the type of book you need to read slowly in order to enjoy it. Choosing the book led to the following conversation with my wife:
Scout: If you understand Art & Lies, explain it to me.
Celine: Only if you explain to me that Bunuel film I still don't understand.
Seriously, if anyone reading this can grasp The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, kindly explain it to me. I know it's surrealist so it's not exactly meant to be explained, yadda yadda yadda, but I can't shake off the feeling that there's something I missed.
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Scout and I had a (very short) book shopping and shawarma date. Got 2 books for P49.50 each, which inspired me to blog about it @ Frugal Pinoy. If you read for leisure (I think at least 60% of my friends do), you might want to check out the article if you're sick of spending hundreds of pesos for a single book. I set a P500 book-buying budget for myself this month, glad to know I bought 2 already with just roughly P100.
Speaking of reading, I just remembered that most of my friends from Kalayaan don't read for fun. I know of one person who's read exactly 4 books in her life. Can you imagine that? Four. I wonder what they do for brain exercise. Maybe advanced calculus.
- - -
I'll be working twice as hard this week so I can just relax next week or do non-work projects. Those comics need to get done. I'm such an expert procrastinator when it comes to that.
Plus, Scout and I will be watching Avenue Q, attending the ToyCon @ Megamall, and I'll be heading off to Tagaytay with the Mangoes. With all of that going on, I don't think I'll be able to focus on work next week. It's a good thing my editor agreed that I write all my articles for that week in advance.